• Stalinwolf
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    9 months ago

    Growing up on acreage that used to be an orchard, I would spend my autumn days walking around with an aluminum bat, smashing every single apple with wasps or hornets feeding upon it. I miss those days.

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        9 months ago

        Surprisingly not. They were usually disoriented from eating fermented apple. Aggressive enough to fly around angrily when you came near, but never quote coordinated enough to land a sting. I revived far more stings from trying to catch honeybees in jars, which I feel bad about in retrospect and definitely deserved. I never intended to hurt or kill the honeybees, though. Just the hornets.

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      9 months ago

      Kids can be dumbasses. And needlessly cruel. Been there myself. I sometimes would like to slap the shit out of kid me for stupid things I did.

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      9 months ago

      AAAAHH AAAAAH THE BEEES THE BEES THEY’RE STINGING MY EYES, although the appetizer is still better than Applebee’s.

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    9 months ago

    Every bug that is black and yellow and can sting is a bee.

    That’s all anyone needs to know.